CCTV footage shows terrorist exchanging fire with police

Lahore: Dramatic close circuit TV footage of the terror attack on the Federal Investigation Agency office here that was aired by news channels shows a gunman exchanging fire with security forces just before an explosion.

The footage of the attack ?- one of three near- simultaneous assaults by terrorists in Lahore on October 15 -? shows pedestrians and police officers running helter-skelter just before an armed terrorist appears on the scene at 0926am.

The terrorist, clad in a white shalwar-kameez and with a blackbag on his back, opens fire on the FIA`s provincial headquarters three minutes later and heads for the building.

Footage taken from another CCTV camera installed in the FIA office`s compound shows a gunman running into the building, followed by a woman and a police guard.